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1970 Rolls-Royce 2-door Mulliner Park Ward for sale

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For sale by auction on Saturday 06 June 2015 with Historics at Brooklands. Brooklands Motor Racing Circuit. Weybridge. Surrey. Call 01753 639170Rolls-Royce Motors formed Mulliner Park Ward by the 1961 mergerof two Rolls-Royce subsidiaries: Park Ward of Willesden. London. aRolls-Royce subsidiary since 1939 and H. J. Mulliner &amp; Co. ofChiswick. a Rolls-Royce subsidiary since 1959. Mulliner Park Wardcontinues to operate as the vehicle customization division ofBentley Motors Limited. the successor of Rolls-Royce Motors. TheCorniche was a development of the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow withthe two door variants of that model marketed as the 'Silver ShadowMulliner Park Ward' two-door fixedhead coupé. the very handsomecoachwork design was by John Polwhele Blatchley. The model wasassembled and finished in London at Mulliner Park Ward ascontinuation of the 1965 Silver Shadow coupé. the Corniche name wasapplied from 1971 for all two-door coupés. The car used thestandard Rolls-Royce V8 6750cc engine. with an aluminium-siliconalloy block and aluminium cylinder heads with cast iron wetcylinder liners mated to a three-speed automatic transmission fromGeneral Motors.

This incredibly handsome 2-door Rolls-Royce was supplied by LexMead of Weybridge on 23rd October 1970 at a cost of£8. 58 and has only had three owners in total during its' 45 yearson the road. The car has only covered 37. 00 miles in total andthis is warranted by a great history file. Described as 'likedriving your favourite armchair'. the level of comfort from thisRolls-Royce is what is expected from such a premium marque. Thesilver coachwork is in excellent condition as is the sumptuous richred interior. Supplied with a V5 registration document and an MoTtest certificate valid until 21st November 2015. rarelydo such splendid examples as this come to market.